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Includes materials of importance in the history of the Dental School, from its origin as the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, founded in 1840 by Horace Hayden and Chapin Harris.
Looking for an ancestor? Try the UMB Alumni Database. Other dental schools in our University’s history were the original Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, The Baltimore Medical College Dental Department, the Maryland Dental College, and our earlier University of Maryland Dental Department. Graduates from those schools also are included at that link.
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The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery : Heritage and HistoryThe work begins by highlighting the story of the practice of dentistry through the ages and the significant events that culminated in the establishment of formal dental education, the first major branch of higher education to originate in America. The second part is a genealogy of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Dental School, University of Maryland at Baltimore, from which the exacting educational standards which are the foundation of professional dentistry today have evolved. - from Forward